Alexander Shen (RUS)

Alexandre Shen works as a researcher in Montpellier (LIRMM, CNRS & University of Montepellier, France) and Moscow (on leave from Institute of information transmission problems, Moscow, Russia); his research topic is algorithmic information theory (Kolmogorov complexity) and algorithmic randomness (foundations of probability theory). Since 1981 he participates in the organization of Kolmogorov seminar in Moscow Univesity (started by Andrei N. Kolmogorov himself).

For many years he worked in advanced math program in Moscow teaching mathematics and computer science and wrote some books for high school students: Algebra (with Israel M. Gelfand), Algorithms and Programs: Problems and Solutions and several others (not translated into English).